Subversive Genealogy: The Politics and Art of Herman MelvilleKnopf, 1983 - 354 páginas Examines Herman Melville's use of the history of his family in the writing of his novels and analyzes the political views contained in his fiction. |
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... Lincoln had also con- ceived the Union as an edifice of stone . But the reopening of the slavery controversy , in 1854 , pointed to the Union's fragility . The dispute over the extension of slavery to Nebraska made solid stone an ...
... Lincoln had also con- ceived the Union as an edifice of stone . But the reopening of the slavery controversy , in 1854 , pointed to the Union's fragility . The dispute over the extension of slavery to Nebraska made solid stone an ...
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... Lincoln's celebration of the sepulcher of the fathers echoed Webster at Bunker Hill . But unlike Webster , Lincoln revealed what it cost the sons to sacrifice their own heroic ambitions on the fathers ' altars . " Towering genius ...
... Lincoln's celebration of the sepulcher of the fathers echoed Webster at Bunker Hill . But unlike Webster , Lincoln revealed what it cost the sons to sacrifice their own heroic ambitions on the fathers ' altars . " Towering genius ...
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... Lincoln in- sisted . Invoking the Declaration of Independence , Lincoln was bringing White - Jacket's language to bear against slavery . " Lincoln called the extension of slavery the " great Behemoth of danger " to the Union . But he ...
... Lincoln in- sisted . Invoking the Declaration of Independence , Lincoln was bringing White - Jacket's language to bear against slavery . " Lincoln called the extension of slavery the " great Behemoth of danger " to the Union . But he ...
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The Red Rover | 3 |
POLITICS | 13 |
and Christians | 42 |
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Subversive Genealogy: The Politics and Art of Herman Melville Michael Rogin Vista previa limitada - 1985 |
Subversive Genealogy: The Politics and Art of Herman Melville Michael Rogin Vista previa limitada - 1985 |
Términos y frases comunes
Ahab Ahab's Albany Allan Melvill American antebellum authority Bartleby Battle-Pieces Benito Cereno Billy Budd Billy's Boston brother buttons called captain Cass Civil confidence Confidence-Man costume crew Custom House death democratic dome dream Duyckinck escape father flogging freedom Ganse Gansevoort Melville Glendinning Guert Gansevoort Hawthorne heart Henry Herman Melville hero human Ibid imagined Indian Isabel Ishmael Israel Potter Jackson lawyer Lemuel Shaw Lincoln Mackenzie Mackenzie's Manifest Destiny Maria Melvill Marx masquerade Melvill to Peter Melville wrote Melville's fiction Moby-Dick mother Mount Greylock mutiny narrator nature Neversink novel Omoo Parker paternal Pequod Peter Gansevoort Philip Spencer Pierre Pierre's pirate poem political Red Rover Redburn replaced Revolution revolutionary romance sailors San Dominick savage Shaw's ship slave slavery SM/H social society Somers Stanwix stone story symbols Tartarus Thomas Melvill Thoreau tion Tocqueville Union Vere Vere's Webster whale whip White-Jacket York Young America